Emmanuel Macron

Some freshly repainted walls in the museum are now at the center of a trans-Atlantic legal clash between the Louvre and the Cy Twombly Foundation in New York over extensive renovations in its Salle des Bronzes.

With less than 5 percent of its population inoculated so far, the Emmanuel Macron government is under tremendous pressure to secure more vaccines. Covaxin could likely be a beneficiary.

About 30 leaders, government officials and heads of international organizations were participating in the One Planet Summit on Monday, which was being held by videoconference because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The French president's office said that Emmanuel Macron took a COVID-19 test “as soon as the first symptoms appeared”.

France's foreign minister had demanded Pakistan authorities withdraw the comments posted on Twitter by Pakistan's Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari.

Emmanuel Macron came to power in 2017 on a wave of optimism that he was a transformational leader who would bring much-needed reform to France.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks about Islam amid recent attacks in France have led to the Muslim world squaring up against France. But, origins of this new conflict may be more complicated.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been facing criticism from various Muslim-majority countries after he took a tough stand on radical Islam and defended a caricature of Prophet Muhammad.

The new measures echo the eight-week lockdown that France enforced in the spring, when hospitalisations and deaths caused by the COVID-19 epidemic reached a peak.

French President Emmanuel Macron's comment that Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today and his refusal to condemn the publishing of caricatures have led to calls for boycotts of French goods, especially in Jordan, Kuwait, and Qatar

The French foreign ministry, however, has termed the boycott as “baseless” and being “pushed by a radical minority.”

Emmanuel Macron recently criticised the killing of a teacher -- Samuel Paty -- in the suburbs of Paris by a radical Islamist

An 18-year-old Chechen, suspected of beheading the teacher, was later shot dead by the police in Paris.

The imposition of a curfew in several major cities underscored a difficult choice: further dampening the economy or risking more lives.

The announcement by Moustapha Adib nearly a month after he was appointed to the job throws the small country deeper into political uncertainty. He told reporters he was stepping down after it became clear that the kind of Cabinet he wished to form was “bound to fail.”

The case has prompted international calls for Russia to carry out a transparent investigation or risk sanctions, but the country has not opened a criminal probe.

Cocq had written to Macron asking to be given a substance that would allow him to die in peace but the president wrote back to him explaining this was not allowed under French law.

Emmanuel Macron, speaking on a visit to Lebanon, said it was incumbent on French citizens to show civility and respect for each other, and avoid a "dialogue of hate."

Under multi-confessional Lebanon's political system, the premier must be a Sunni, the presidency is reserved for a Maronite Christian and the post of parliamentary speaker goes to a Shiite.

French President Emmanuel Macron said there was a willingness to compromise for agreement on an economic recovery fund at the European Union's summit, but it should not come at the cost of ambition for the bloc.